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Paul McCartney weds again: but who is Nancy Shevell?
Macca’s third wife is also his second heiress – but not much else is known about her
FORMER BEATLE Sir Paul McCartney walks down the aisle again today – or at least down the registry office corridor – as he takes American Nancy Shevell as his third wife. But just who is the dark-haired 51-year-old?
Macca started dating his new bride in 2007 before his divorce from Heather Mills had been granted. Shevell is said to have been a family friend of McCartney and his late wife Linda, nee Eastman.
Like Linda, Shevell is an heiress to a substantial fortune. (There's a widespread assumption that Linda Eastman was related to the George Eastman of Kodak-Eastman fame. In fact she was not, her wealth came from her mother who inherited the Lindner department store fortune.)
Shevell is vice-president of New England Motor Freight (NEMF), a business built and still controlled by her father Myron 'Mike' Shevell. In 2007, the Daily Mail reported that Shevell Sr was a "colourful character" who had faced "allegations of fraud and involvement with a Mafia crime family".
Allegations that Shevell had colluded with the Mafia while running his first businesses led to an FBI investigatoion. They were never brought to trial but the inquiry suspended trading and bankrupted Shevell - before he started again with NEMF in 1976.
However, it's safe to assume that Sir Paul won't worry too much about this "colourful" background: Nancy Shevell's wealth - it has been estimated she will inherit £250m - at least means there's little chance she could be seen as a gold digger.
Now 51, Shevell has more than just her love for Macca and her independent means in common with the ex-Beatle's great love. Like Linda, Shevell went to college in Arizona and both women were hit by cancer, being diagnosed one year apart.
Shevell is Jewish and McCartney and his fiancée were seen attending a synagogue together recently. After their registry office wedding today, they were due to return to McCartney's St John's Wood mansion for a small party, reportedly with 30 guests including Sir Mick Jagger on what would have been John Lennon's 71st birthday.
The wedding was expected to be considerably lower-key than the rather ostentatious £1.5m nuptials of McCartney and Mills at an Irish castle with 300 guests in 2002. One report says Macca is shelling out just £50,000 – less than the price of Mills's dress.
If the Mail on Sunday is to be believed, the Scouse songwriter is economising on the entertainment too: he will apparently perform three songs for his guests himself, including a new one written especially for Shevell. ·
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Ha, where have you been Mr Hogarth? In today's money centred world, money can buy you anything, including a leg up into the 'upper echeleons of society'!
While many may agree with the Ingram proposal, surely no one will accept his view that these newlyweds belong to "the upper echelons of British society".
I should also have added my idea for a title for the heiress lottery - 'Heir Share' (not to be confused with the Scottish county) would seem to cover it.
Dear First Post -
Once again we are confronted by an example of greed and inequity that riddles British society - the marriage of Sir Paul McCartney to American heiress Nancy Shevell.
'Macca' who is massively rich from knocking out the odd tune over the last century or two, is now on his second heiress (by now, literally), whereas those less fortunate in our society (and I include myself in this category) haven't even been offered our first one.
I realise that Sir Paul did take a financial nose-dive of twenty-odd million to his last spouse, but since Ms Shevell is worth around ten times that, it seems that, once more, the upper echelons of British society are embracing Mammon whilst the rest of us are fighting for crumbs.
Isn't it time we had a fairer system of distributing these heiresses amongst lower income bachelors? Perhaps some form of heiress lottery?
We, (the aforementioned bachelors), also have a lot to offer - an huge appetite for the better things in life and a willingness to help these heiresses redistribute the unearned income on more worthwhile projects which will boost the economy - such buying pies and draught lager.
Fairer sharing of heiresses would go a long way to healing some of the huge divisions in our polarised society.
Disgusted of Yorkshire